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Gather your Friends as We are having BarrieHaus Oktoberfest Saturday, October 15 Ticketed Sessions 1p-4p and 6p-9p. Must purchase a ticket to attend.

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Now in our third year, our Oktoberfest is still the best in town! We are hosting another bang up exclusive Oktoberfest in our Biergarten in 2022. We will have all of your Oktoberfest fun and games as well as a few surprises. Dress to impress and you will be rewarded!

This year we are hosting 2 Ticketed sessions on Saturday, October 15! Pick your poison between an afternoon or evening session of beer stein-hoisting and brat tossing. We WILL sell out of both Sessions, so choose your preferred table size as soon as possible! There is no standing room available, you must purchase a ticket to attend Oktoberfest.

Session Ticket includes: * Table Reservation or Single Admission Ticket from either 1:00pm-4:00pm or 6:00pm-9:00pm (make sure you choose the correct time when you purchase your tickets!!)

* Limited Edition Collectible Commemorative 2022 BarrieHaus Beer Stein + a free fill of Märzen

* The exclusive party in the BarrieHaus Biergarten under the big, white tent

* Live, Traditional German Polka Band

* Participation in all of the fun and games and chances to win prizes! Bring your competitive spirit for brat toss, musical chairs, beer puppets, stein-hoisting, trivia and more!

* Photos with Mayor Bear

* Special swag giveaways

* BarrieHaus is paying for your Event Brite processing fees because life is hard enough!

Add-on extras to your ticket to make the most out of your festival experience! Once you purchase your ticket to the festival, you will recieve an email (within 24 hours) or click here to pre-purchase a 10L Shareable Keg, Food for the fest, and merchandise at lower rates. Prices go up on the day of the festival or if buying at the brewery.

- Märzen and Fest Beer tokens (Pre-sale $6/beer, Festival price $7.25/beer) One Märzen fill is included in your ticket!

- NEW! Don't get up! Pre-purchase a shareable 10L Keg of Märzen Beer for your table at Oktoberfest. The keg is equivalent to 20 beers and requires a party tap. For the day of Oktoberfest we will have party taps available to borrow and may have some in-Haus for rent. ***These kegs will also be available for purchase in the taproom in the month of October so come on in and ask about them if you want to purchase for home use.

- Traditional Bavarian Feast plate includes a Beer-soaked Braut on a Pretzel bun, German-style sauerkraut, German potato salad, Warm Mac & Cheese spatzl, and a Pickle(Pre-sale $12 per plate, Festival price $18)

- 2023 Limited edition Festival T-shirt (Pre-sale $20, Festival price $25)

- BarrieHaus Oktoberfest long socks (Pre-sale $25, Festival price $25)

The fine print...

This is a 21 and up event. Sorry, no kids. BUT our Art-toberfest for the Kids! is just the next day on Sunday, October 16 with lots of fun, free kiddo activities!

As always, please drink responsibly and have a plan to get to the festival and home without drinking and driving. We offer Designated Driver tickets available for $20 which includes a special gift and unlimited soads, teas, or lemonade. Beer Stein is not included in the ticket. Type in the code: DD in the promo code box at checkout.

Remember - Tickets to our Oktoberfest ARE REQUIRED to attend because there is no standing room available. You CAN buy kegs, t-shirts, and socks without coming to our Fest, but still will have to wait to pick them up until October.

The Florida Panthers have been swept out of the NHL postseason, falling 2-0 to host the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 4 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series on Monday.

Florida was the NHL's top-seeded team entering the playoffs, having earned the franchise's first Presidents' Trophy title on the strength of a 122-point campaign. The Panthers are now the first Presidents' Trophy winners to be swept from a playoff series since the 2019 Lightning were ousted by Columbus in the first round.

"It's a tough pill to swallow," Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad said. "Getting swept is tough. It hurts. It stings. There's no doubt about it."

Game 4 was a scoreless affair most of the way, until left winger Patrick Maroon tipped a point blast from Zach Bogosian past Sergei Bobrovsky in the third period. Ondrej Palat added an empty-netter in the final minute to seal Florida's fate.

The Panthers built their historic regular season on offensive success, pacing the NHL in average scoring (4.11 goals per game) thanks to enviable depth upfront. They were not shut out once through 82 games. In fact, the last time Florida did not score a goal in a game prior to Monday was Game 6 of their first-round series against Tampa last spring.

But all that firepower failed Florida when it mattered most.

The Panthers stumbled their way past Washington in the first round, winning in six games but requiring multiple come-from-behind performances to do so. That effort wouldn't suffice against reigning two-time Cup champion Tampa Bay.

Florida didn't score more than one goal in any of the four games against Tampa Bay. All the Panthers' top performers continuously came up empty. Jonathan Huberdeau was one of four 30-plus goal scorers in the Panthers' regular season and led the team with 115 points. He added only two assists against Tampa. Aleksander Barkov and Claude Giroux tallied one assist each. Sam Reinhart recorded a single goal, and it was the only one Florida scored on the power play the entire postseason.

The Panthers finished their postseason 1-for-31 on the man advantage.

"Special teams for me was an issue," said interim coach Andrew Brunette. "I take a lot of blame for the power play, that was my fault. Should be better, has to be better. Really disappointed in myself for that."

Andrei Vasilevskiy was spectacular for Tampa Bay in net, giving up only three goals in four games. He made 49 saves on Monday night.

In his last seven series-clinching games, Vasilevskiy has made 199 saves on 200 shots and recorded six shutouts.

Also impressive was Tampa completed its sweep of Florida without top forward Brayden Point, who's been sidelined by injury since Game 6 of the Lightning's first-round series against Toronto.

"They're Stanley Cup champions for a reason," said Brunette. "[They grew] from a high-flying offensive team and stuck with it. We aspire to be them."

Bobrovsky repeatedly gave the Panthers a chance to recover, though, not only in Game 4 but throughout the series. He registered a solid .908 SV% over the first three games and turned aside 23 shots trying to stave off elimination on Monday.

The Panthers just couldn't provide him any help.

"I think it was our best game this series," said Barkov of Game 4. "But it wasn't enough."

Florida even caught a couple breaks with two Tampa goals being disallowed in the second period.

The first review took over 10 minutes, as the NHL's situation room in Toronto tried to discern whether the puck had hit mesh prior to Lightning forward Alex Killorn's ice-breaking goal. Finally, a ruling came down that the puck had exited the surface of play. No goal for Tampa Bay.

The second review happened just minutes later. Nikita Kucherov snapped a wrister past Bobrovsky, but Florida challenged for a hand pass by Anthony Cirelli off the draw. It took less than two minutes for the verdict -- no goal.

The Panthers couldn't muster any goals of their own, and now they will face a long spring and summer ahead to examine what sent their postseason off the rails.

"I love this team," said Brunette, whose own future in Florida is still in flux. "Of course I'd love to [come back] but those are not really my decisions. I love this team, I love the group, I believe in it. I believe in them."

The American housing market took off during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and home values have been climbing rapidly since. Home sale data compiled by real estate data company Zillow shows that the typical value of a mid-priced home soared by over 20% in the last year, from $284,000 in April 2021 to over $344,000 in April 2022.

Much of the surge in home sales, however, was not driven by families or first-time homebuyers, but rather by investors.

According to realty company Redfin, investors accounted for 18.4% of all U.S. home sales in the fourth quarter of 2021 - or more than one in every six home sales. Real estate investors can be large corporations, like Blackstone, or local companies and wealthy individuals. No matter who the investor is, their goal is the same - to profit from the real estate market, either through flipping homes or converting them into rentals.

Some major metropolitan areas are drawing even more investors than the national average. In the Tampa, Florida metro area, investors accounted for an estimated 24.2% of home sales in the fourth quarter of 2021 - equal to nearly one in every four home sales. The value of all homes in the metro area bought by investors in the final three months of 2021 totals $1,598,507,095.

Likely due in part to the impact investors are having on demand, home values are relatively high in Tampa. As of April 2022, the median home price in the metro area was $390,000.

SUNRISE — The Florida Panthers woke up to the sun shining Friday just as coach Andrew Brunette said they would.

That does not mean that the memories of Thursday night were washed away.

Not even close.

The Panthers sustained what could be a mortal blow on Thursday, going from heading to overtime with the Lightning to losing 2-1 on a Ross Colton goal with 3.8 seconds remaining.

Now Florida finds itself down 2-0 to the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions with the series rolling into Tampa.

It’s now a five-game series and the Panthers are running out of losses.

The team will be back on the ice Saturday before flying to Tampa. We’ll see what happens next.

PANTHERLAND

The Florida Panthers have dug themselves into another big hole against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

— What an ending for the Lightning. Rough one for the Panthers. Heartbreaking even.

— Last night’s postgame media sessions are up on the FloridaHockeyNow YouTube channel — if you want to hear from Eetu Luostarinen, Sergei Bobrovsky and Brunette, check it out.

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THUNDERDOME

The Lightning are in control of this series after taking the first two in Sunrise.

— It was quite a courageous win for the Lightning.

— Corey Perry is not washed up.

— The Lightning kept getting banged up and kept coming back on the ice.

AROUND THE NHL

The St. Louis Blues got back in their series, beating the host Colorado Avalanche in Game 2.

— Can the Calgary Flames stop Connor McDavid?

— Brady Tkachuk is stealing the show in Calgary.

— Do not be surprised if David Pastrnak gets a big extension from the Boston Bruins.

— All options are on the table for Nicklas Backstrom and the Washington Capitals.

— Here are some more names for the Vegas Golden Knights in their coaching search.

PANTHERS V. LIGHTNING (TB leads 2-0)

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ST. PETE, Fla. — Tampa bay continues to be the most sought-after area in the state. Recent studies continue to show just how popular Tampa Bay is and will continue to be.

Zach Franco has lived in St. Pete for three years as a college student. During that time, he said he has noticed the growth in the area.

"I have seen growth and expansion of development. I mean, literally, behind the camera right now is a 30, 35 story building that's going up, and there's probably seven or eight of them within the next mile," he said.

The Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research said Pinellas County is on par to reach 1,016,000 people by 2040.

A study by the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority found Hillsborough County could grow by 40% in that same time frame.

Franco, a Virginia native, said he understands why this is such a hot spot.

"To anybody who doesn't live in Florida, they think it is beaches, Disney, retirement communities. For me, some people who kind of pushed me out to explore the city, different cities, and then just wilderness wild spaces around here. And so I started to learn that Florida is a lot more than when you think it is," he said.

Pinellas Realtor Jennifer Thayer said that's exactly what is driving her clients to buy here.

"What we're hearing, the reason why they're buying, you've got 361 days of sunshine, people are trading in their snowshoes for flip flops, it's just a nice, easier environment," she added.

The number of people who want to experience all that Tampa Bay has to offer means buying a house right now is difficult.

"We're at 19.4% of inventory over last year. That's about a month's inventory. A balanced market is about 6 months," she said.

Florida Realtors reported sales closed for 85,328 single-family houses and 38,772 townhouses and condos in the second quarter of the year. Tampa Bay (Hillsborough, Pinellas, Hernando, and Pasco counties) sold more than any other part of the state. But we are entering a slightly slower period.

"It's a little bit slower not because people don't want to be here but because they're off right now. We'll start to see it pick back up in November and go until April," said Thayer.

Her advice to anyone looking to buy now or later:

"Find a professional. You're definitely going to want to work with someone in a tricky market, you want somebody who can negotiate on your behalf, find the right property, understand what you're looking for, know the neighborhoods," she added.

According to Freddie Mac, a thirty-year fixed rate mortgage averaged 5.52% in June of this year.It was 2.98% last June.

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